| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar babysits; Big Bird's taxi service | |||||||
| Air date | November 28, 1972 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | David welcomes the viewer, explaining that today they will be explaining first and last. To start off, David recruits Bob, Luis, Maria, and some kids to form a line, then has the last person in line come to the front and become first. They continue doing so until a few of them end up falling over somewhere in the middle. |
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Muppets | Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Two is You and Me." (First: Episode 0375) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar watches over a baby in a carriage, complaining how Mrs. Siegel asked him to babysit her son Stevie since nobody else was available. The baby starts to cry, which Oscar enjoys listening to. David comes over and tends to the baby, believing he's hungry. Oscar thinks that the kid can just go over to Hooper's Store, then offers him a bite of his mud sandwich. David finds the baby's milk bottle, explaining that babies can neither walk nor eat harder foods (especially ones made of mud). |
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Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 3 | The baby starts to cry again, and Luis discovers that Stevie has wet his diaper. Oscar offers a dirty dustrag for a new diaper, but Luis makes sure that he uses a clean, fresh diaper instead. Luis changes Stevie's diaper after Oscar panics about the idea of doing it himself. |
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Song | Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?" (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 4 | The baby starts to cry again. Maria believes he's sleepy, so Oscar yells at the kid to close his eyes and stop crying. Maria's method of singing a lullaby in Spanish works much better. Oscar swears he'll never babysit again when Mrs. Siegel (played onscreen by Fran Brill) comes by to pick up her baby. She is so pleased with the job Oscar did (but didn't do) that she says she'll recommend him as a babysitter to all her friends. Oscar screams. |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over. (First: Episode 0018) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs. (First: Episode 0103) |
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Cartoon | A man (voiced by Jack Dodson) describes places that begin with U and what you can do with the letter U. (First: Episode 0416) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper is bouncing on a pogo stick. He asks a man if he'd like to try it, and the man replies, "I'd love to!" Harvey then slaps a big number 2 on the man's chest. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309) |
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Insert | Five signs are counted forward and backward as they appear on the stoop, followed by five kids holding the signs. |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot. (First: Episode 0018) |
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Insert | Five kids appear on the stoop, rising up one step each time a new kid is added. They are then counted backwards. |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off. (First: Episode 0018) |
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Muppets | At night, Grover thinks he hears noises in the dark. When he sees a shadow on the wall, he cowers under the covers - but the shadow turns out to be his Mommy. (First: Episode 0397) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "C is for Cookie." (First: Episode 0372) |
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Cartoon | C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake). (First: Episode 0203) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar asks for Bob's help in reading a note on his trash can from Maria, which reads, “Thanks for helping me throw out the trash. I owe you un beso.” Oscar wants to know what “beso” means, but Bob hesitates to tell him, saying it's something that he'd think will make him feel yucchy. Oscar immediately wants the “beso” when given this news, so to his disgust Maria comes down and gives Oscar a big kiss. |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 1) (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0032) |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 2) (First: Episode 0003) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper looks inside a paper bag and laughs and asks his next victim, "Wanna see?" The man says yes, so Harvey puts a letter C on him. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #14: Dots line up at the same time as some squares who ultimately dominate the board (First: Episode 0297) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis is just about to eat his lunch out in the yard, but notices that one of the chairs is missing its seat and back part. He and David then notice that there are no wheels at the bottom of David’s shopping cart, and Bob points out that the rope is missing from the tire swing. They see that Big Bird has started his own taxi service, and wheels in a contraption that uses all of the missing items. The grown-ups tell him that he shouldn't take things that he believes were just lying around, and Big Bird offers David a ride to the supermarket. |
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Cartoon | Capital letter U for up (First: Episode 0401) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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Film | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Insert | Big Bird plays in his nest with a set of blocks that Roosevelt Franklin had gifted him. Herry Monster comes along and helps him sort them according to how they want to play with them. (First: Episode 0178) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Princess and the Cookie — Cookie Monster plays the princess and devours all of the mattresses. |
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Film | New Bridge #1 - Panel Drop (First: Episode 0105) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | What’s missing?
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Blows a Fuse — Ernie and Bert are watching TV, but Bert gets bored and decides to play a record. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (repeat) |
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Film | Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Transition | Bridge #7 – Rectangle Bridge A (First: Episode 0290) |
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Film | A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first." (First: Episode 0290) |
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SCENE 8 | David and the kids play the same first/last game from the beginning, only with the first person in line running to the back to become last. They continue as Big Bird announces the sponsors, ending by saying, "... and I'm last!" |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria and Bob hold the Sesame Street sign, and Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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